{"id":2850,"date":"2010-06-10T12:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2010-06-16T16:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T20:14:55","slug":"the-world-bank-opens-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/the-world-bank-opens-access\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Bank Opens Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The World Bank&#8217;s Board of Executive Directors recently approved a new Access to Information policy.\u00a0 In keeping with this new policy,\u00a0the <a title=\"The World Bank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\" target=\"_blank\">The World Bank <\/a>has\u00a0made\u00a0the following databases\u00a0free to the public. You can also find these databases on the Libraries&#8217; <a title=\"FAU Indexes and Databases\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fau.edu\/library\/ecollect\/ecollect.php\">Indexes\/Databases<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"The World Bank Open Data\" href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The World Bank  Open Data<br \/>\n<\/a>The World Bank&#8217;s Open Data initiative is intended to  provide all users with access to World Bank data. The Development Data  Group coordinates statistical and data work and maintains a number of  macro, financial and sector databases. These databases are used by teams  to prepare Country Assistance Strategies, poverty assessments, research  studies and other forms of economic and sector work. Included are World  Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, Africa Development  Indicators and Global Economic Monitor.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Africa Development Indicators \" href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/data-catalog\/africa-development-indicators\" target=\"_blank\">Africa\u00a0 Development Indicators (ADI)<br \/>\n<\/a>ADI is the most detailed collection of data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries and spanning the period 1961 to 2008. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Global Development Finance\" href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/data-catalog\/global-development-finance\" target=\"_blank\">Global Development Finance (GDF)<\/a><br \/>\nGlobal Development Finance is the sole repository for statistics on the external debt of developing countries derived from loan-by-loan records. This edition of GDF presents reported or estimated data on the total external debt of 128 individual countries that report to the World Bank&#8217;s Debtor reporting System (DRS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Global Economic Monitor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/gem\" target=\"_blank\">Global Economic Monitor (GEM)<\/a><br \/>\nGEM provides a daily and monthly commentary on global economic conditions along with direct access to high frequency data that is refreshed daily. It provides analysis of current economic trends, economic, financial and commodity data indicators, an extensive database including growth and commodity forecasts .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"World Development Indicators\" href=\"http:\/\/databank.worldbank.org\/ddp\/home.do\" target=\"_blank\">World Development Indicators (WDI)<\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WDI is the World Bank&#8217;s premier annual compilation of data about development. WDI includes more than 900 indicators in over 80 tables organized in six sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank&#8217;s Board of Executive Directors recently approved a new Access to Information policy.\u00a0 In keeping with this new policy,\u00a0the The World Bank has\u00a0made\u00a0the following databases\u00a0free to the public. You can also find these databases on the Libraries&#8217; Indexes\/Databases pages. The World Bank Open Data The World Bank&#8217;s Open Data initiative is intended to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[51,65,468],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronic-resources","tag-business","tag-international-economics","tag-world-bank"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}